Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change - International

Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change from Charles Sturt University equips managers with the skills and knowledge to plan and implement change effectively. With a focus on practical application, this online program allows students to apply change processes directly to their workplace. The program covers key change models, ethical foundations, and the impact of organizational culture and politics. Graduates gain career-enhancing skills in project management, quality and innovation management, and sustainable management approaches.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change from Charles Sturt University is designed for managers looking for specific skills and knowledge in contemporary change management. With a strong workplace focus, this course provides a set of career-enhancing skills readily applicable to many professional careers.

Objectives:

• Instruct you in the process of planning and implementing change.
• Learn to maximize the effectiveness of the change effort and minimize potential employee resistance and loss to the organisation.
• Examine key organisational change models and the theoretical and ethical foundations for managing change, including the role of organisational culture and behaviour and the impact of organisational politics.
• Complement these foundational studies with options including project management, managing quality and innovation and/or sustainable management approaches.
• Assessments have a strong practical emphasis and allow you to apply organisational change process directly to your workplace.

Program Description:

• Building on your previous qualifications and experience, the Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change instructs you in the process of planning and implementing change.
• You'll learn to maximise the effectiveness of the change effort and minimise potential employee resistance and loss to the organisation.
• Contemporary relevance
• You'll examine key organisational change models and the theoretical and ethical foundations for managing change, including the role of organisational culture and behaviour and the impact of organisational politics.
• You can complement these foundational studies with options including project management, managing quality and innovation and/or sustainable management approaches.
• Assessments have a strong practical emphasis and allow you to apply organisational change process directly to your workplace.
• Quality, dynamic learning
• Charles Sturt University's dedicated academics have extensive business and practical workplace experience that informs their teaching and research.
• Our online educational environment offers diverse technological platforms that enhance teaching, learning, communication and collaboration among students and academics.
• Maximum flexibility
• Delivered entirely online, with no on-campus requirements, this course offers a range of options so you can balance study with work or family commitments.
• You can opt to study just one subject a session or, with approval, fast-track completion of your course by taking up to four subjects a session.
• Plus, flexible schedules and recorded lectures and tutorials mean you can study when it suits you best.

Outline:

Content:

• Organisational change models
• Theoretical and ethical foundations for managing change
• Role of organisational culture and behaviour
• Impact of organisational politics
• Project management
• Managing quality and innovation
• Sustainable management approaches

Structure:

• Core subjects (8 credit pts)
• Restricted electives - Set A - Human Behaviour group (8 credit pts)
• Restricted electives - Set B - Process/Technical group (8 credit pts)
• Restricted electives - Set C - Innovative/Adaptive group (8 credit pts)

Course Schedule:

• Session 1: February 26, 2024
• Session 2: July 8, 2024
• Session 3: November 11, 2024

Individual Modules with Descriptions:

Core Subjects:

• MGT540 Facilitating Change (8 credit pts)
• MGM509 Implementing Change (8 credit pts)

Restricted Electives - Set A - Human Behaviour group:

• HRM512 Values and Conflict in Organisations (8 credit pts)
• HRM531 Organisational Politics (8 credit pts)
• HRM552 Organisational Behaviour (8 credit pts)
• HRM545 Skills of Conflict Resolution (8 credit pts)
• LAW519 Negotiation Skills (8 credit pts)

Restricted Electives - Set B - Process/Technical group:

• HRM502 Human Resource Management (8 credit pts)
• HRM550 Evaluating Human Resources (8 credit pts)
• HRM560 Training, Design and Development (8 credit pts)
• MGT510 Strategy and Planning (8 credit pts)
• MGT553 Project Management (8 credit pts)

Restricted Electives - Set C - Innovative/Adaptive group:

• HML508 Creativity, Innovation and Change (8 credit pts)
• MGT583 Managing for Sustainability (8 credit pts)
• MGM512 Transforming Services and Operations (8 credit pts)

Assessment:

Assessments have a strong practical emphasis and allow you to apply organisational change process directly to your workplace.

Teaching:

• Charles Sturt University's dedicated academics have extensive business and practical workplace experience that informs their teaching and research.
• Our online educational environment offers diverse technological platforms that enhance teaching, learning, communication and collaboration among students and academics.

Careers:

In the context of rapid economic and social change, managers are increasingly required to implement transformational change in their organisations. Charles Sturt University's Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change gives you practical, up-to-date skills that are transferable across diverse roles and organisations nationally and internationally.